The British Library has the original manuscript of Beowulf that was published in the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready. It is widely considered the best poem ...

The Beowulf manuscript above is thought to be approximately 1,000 years old. The British Library There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according ...

LONDON — I keep trying not to squint. But the light, an eerie purple, is very low. And there's a piece of heavy glass between my eyes and the object.

Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our ...

The Voynich Manuscript has been reliably dated to mere decades before the invention of the printing press, so it's likely that its peculiar blend of plagiarism and curation was a dying format.

An illustration of the eponymous hero fighting the dragon, next to a manuscript of Beowulf from circa AD 1000, located in the British Library (iStock/Getty) The tale describes a battle with three ...